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Ice Ic Without Stacking Disorder by Evacuating Hydrogen from Hydrogen Hydrate ARTICLE https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14346-5 OPEN Ice Ic without stacking disorder by evacuating hydrogen from hydrogen hydrate Kazuki Komatsu 1*, Shinichi Machida2, Fumiya Noritake3,4, Takanori Hattori5, Asami Sano-Furukawa5, Ryo Yamane1, Keishiro Yamashita1 & Hiroyuki Kagi1 Water freezes below 0 °C at ambient pressure ordinarily to ice Ih, with hexagonal stacking sequence. Under certain conditions, ice with a cubic stacking sequence can also be formed, 1234567890():,; but ideal ice Ic without stacking-disorder has never been formed until recently. Here we demonstrate a route to obtain ice Ic without stacking-disorder by degassing hydrogen from the high-pressure form of hydrogen hydrate, C2, which has a host framework isostructural with ice Ic. The stacking-disorder free ice Ic is formed from C2 via an intermediate amorphous or nano-crystalline form under decompression, unlike the direct transformations occurring in ice XVI from neon hydrate, or ice XVII from hydrogen hydrate. The obtained ice Ic shows remarkable thermal stability, until the phase transition to ice Ih at 250 K, originating from the lack of dislocations. This discovery of ideal ice Ic will promote understanding of the role of stacking-disorder on the physical properties of ice as a counter end-member of ice Ih. 1 Geochemical Research Center, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan. 2 Neutron Science and Technology Center, CROSS, 162-1 Shirakata, Tokai, Naka, Ibaraki 319-1106, Japan. 3 Graduate Faculty of Interdisciplinary Research, University of Yamanashi, 4-3-11 Takeda, Kofu, Yamanashi 400-8511, Japan. 4 Computational Engineering Applications Unit, RIKEN, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan. 5 J- PARC Center, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, 2-4 Shirakata, Tokai, Naka, Ibaraki 319-1195, Japan. *email: [email protected] NATURE COMMUNICATIONS | (2020) 11:464 | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14346-5 | www.nature.com/naturecommunications 1 ARTICLE NATURE COMMUNICATIONS | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14346-5 ater freezes below 0 °C at ambient pressure, ordinarily 400 b to ice Ih with a hexagonal stacking sequence. However, VII W ” “ it is also known to produce ice Ic nominally with a C sII 0 C2 cubic stacking sequence under certain conditions1, and its exis- – 300 a c d tence in Earth’s atmosphere2 4, or in comets5,6 is debated. “Ice g C ” fi fi 7 V 1 Ic , or called as cubic ice, was rst identi ed in 1943 by König , lh who used electron microscopy to study the condensation of ice III VI /K 200 VIII from water vapor to a cold substrate. Subsequently, many dif- T II ferent routes to “ice Ic” have been established, such as the dis- sociation of gas hydrates, warming amorphous ices or annealing high-pressure ices recovered at ambient pressure, freezing of μ-or 100 ƒ e nano-confined water (see ref. 1). Despite the numerous studies on “ice Ic”, its structure has not been fully verified, because the dif- “ ” 0 fraction patterns of ice Ic show signatures of stacking 1,8,9 0.0 0.5 1.0 1.5 2.0 2.5 3.0 3.5 disorder , and ideal ice Ic without stacking disorder had not 10 “ ” p/GPa been formed until very recently . This is the reason why ice Ic is double-quoted1, and it is recently proposed that the stacking- 8 disordered ice should not be termed as ice Ic, but as ice Isd . “ ” “Amorphous-like” Ice Ic (ice Isd) is known as a metastable form of ice at atmospheric pressure. But, recent computer simulations suggest state that even ice Isd could be the stable phase for crystallites up to 11 sizes of at least 100,000 molecules . The stability of stacking- Ice I C disordered ices is extremely important because of the ubiquitous c 2 nature of ice. Stacking-disordered ice can be characterized by the Fig. 1 Phase diagram of hydrogen hydrate and ice with experimental degree of ice cubicity, χ, which is defined as the fraction of cubic paths in this study. Phase boundaries for hydrogen hydrates and ices are stacking1,8,9,12,13. Until very recently, the highest cubicity was drawn using thick blue lines and thin black lines, respectively. Experimental 8,14 limited to ~80% , but it has been reported that ideal ice Ic with p-T paths are shown as black arrows in alphabetical sequence from a to g. 10 100% cubicity has been obtained by annealing ice XVII . The structural models for a high-pressure form of hydrogen hydrate, C2, 15 16,17 Recently new ice polymorphs, ice XVI and ice XVII are and ice Ic are schematically drawn with a newly found amorphous-like state obtained by degassing gas molecules from neon and hydrogen as an intermediate transitional state from C2 to ice Ic. Red, white, and light hydrates, respectively. From these findings, we hypothesized that blue balls in the structure model depict oxygen, hydrogen in water ideal ice Ic could be obtained by degassing hydrogen from molecules, and hydrogen in guest molecules, respectively. Note that – hydrogen hydrate, C2. Five different phases in the H2 H2O sys- hydrogens in water molecules are disordered, so that two of four possible tem have been reported to date (see ref. 18): Among them, neu- sites surrounding one oxygen are actually occupied. tron diffraction experiments have never been conducted for the higher-pressure phases, C1 and C2, probably due to the technical difficulty in loading hydrogen into a pressure vessel, or com- 32e site (x, x, x)). The calculated diffraction pattern was in good pressing it to pressures in the giga-pascal range. To synthesize agreement with the observed one, as shown in Fig. 2a. The refined ideal ice Ic, decompression under low-temperature conditions for structural parameters are listed in Supplementary Table 1. degassing is necessary, which is also not straight-forward using The sample was then cooled from 300 K to 100 K at around conventional pressure-temperature controlling systems. We have 3 GPa (path d → e). In the diffraction pattern taken at e in Fig. 1, developed a Mito system19, and have overcome these technical peaks from solid deuterium (phase I) appeared at around 200 K difficulties (see details in Methods). (Supplementary Fig. 2), which is consistent with the known Here we present the neutron and X-ray diffraction results melting curve of hydrogen20. This observation indicates that fluid showing ice Ic without stacking disorder, obtained from degassing deuterium coexisted with C2 through the path from b to d. hydrogen hydrate C2. We also report an unexpected amorphous- The C2 phase persisted at pressures at least as low as 0.5 GPa → like state in the transformation from C2 to ice Ic, and the thermal on decompression at 100 K (path e f). However, surprisingly, stability of ice Ic. the Bragg peaks of C2 mostly disappeared at 0.2 GPa (Fig. 3). This phenomenon is totally unexpected, because the host structure of gas hydrates retains its framework in the previous cases with ice Results XVI15 and XVII16. The sample was further decompressed to The route to obtain ice Ic. We started by using a mixture of D2O 0 GPa and evacuated using a turbo-molecular-pump. The broad and MgD2, which is an internal deuterium source, to synthesize peaks corresponding to ice Ic appeared at this stage. The peak hydrogen hydrate, C2. After loading the mixture into a pressure- disappearance of C2 before the appearance of ice Ic was temperature controlling system, MgD2 was decomposed by reproducibly observed in at least two separate neutron runs and heating at 403 K and at ca. 0 GPa for 1 h through a nominal one X-ray diffraction run for a hydrogenated sample (Supple- + → + + reaction of MgD2 3D2O Mg(OD)2 2D2 D2O (at b in mentary Fig. 3). In the neutron diffraction pattern at 0.2 GPa, Fig. 1, the observed neutron diffraction patterns are shown in except for the Bragg peaks from Mg(OD)2, only a broad peak was Supplementary Fig. 1). Then, the samples were cooled to room observed at around d = 3.75 Å, which was between the peak temperature (at c in Fig. 1) and typically compressed up to positions of 111 of C2 and that of Ice Ic (Fig. 3). This fact implies ~3 GPa until a C2 phase was observed (at d in Fig. 1). that this state does not have long-range periodicity like a normal The neutron diffraction pattern for the C2 phase obtained at crystal, but has only local-ordering like an amorphous or nano- 3.3 GPa and 300 K (at d in Fig. 1) was analyzed by the Rietveld crystal. Considering the observed d-spacing, this amorphous-like method. We adopted a splitting site model for guest D atoms form would be an intermediate transition state from C2 to ice Ic, located at the 48f site (x, 1/8, 1/8), and the host structure was which forms while hydrogen molecules are partially degassed. It is 9 identical to ice Ic (Fd 3m, O at the 8b site (3/8, 3/8, 3/8), D at the highly likely that this apparent amorphization is derived from the 2 NATURE COMMUNICATIONS | (2020) 11:464 | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14346-5 | www.nature.com/naturecommunications NATURE COMMUNICATIONS | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14346-5 ARTICLE Ice I a c Iobs Mg(OD)2 C2 Icalc Ice Ic Ih Ibkg Mg(OD)2 Ih I -I * obs calc 250 K Mg(OD)2 240 K 200 K C 2 160 K Intensity/a.u.
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